Made Some Self-indulgent Mock-up Book Covers With My Gothic Lit Art 🖤

So here me out, if Victor's description of the creature as beautiful when he was making him is true, and Walton’s description of the creature as a hideous monster upon seeing him at the end of the novel is true, perhaps the creature’s appearance changes as a reflection of how he’s treated.

I believe that the creature appears hauntingly beautiful (as beautiful an 8ft man made from the body parts of dead people could be) when he’s brought into the world, but as he faces constant rejection from mankind and is treated as a monster, his looks begin to reflect his perception of himself. And as his innocence is corrupted and he chooses to act like the monster society sees him as, the creature’s appearance gradually degrades. By the end of Frankenstein, he’s killed four people in his quest for acceptance and has trekked through the arctic, so he looks just like the wretched daemon that Victor always said he was.

…this all to ask, if he was treated with kindness and love would he slowly start to look more human?

POV you drew this in 2022 after discovering Panic! at the Disco because you couldn't stop thinking about that part in the Emperor's New Clothes music video where his spine cracked so hard it altered your brain chemistry:

I said I was gonna do it… and I did.

Nøkken Among the Lilies

Thought I'd post a pic of my summer acrylic painting.

The Nøkken (also known as Näcken, Nøkk, Nixie, or Nix) is a water spirit from Scandinavian Folklore. He is known to reside in still bodies of water, hiding in the lily pads and fern. Nøkken was said to play the violin, fiddle, or harp so beautifully it lured people to the bodies of water where they drowned.

Like this:

The adoration! The devotion! The light in their eyes! I literally can't even handle it 😭!!!!

I love how different One Piece Live Action is to the anime because you can actually see in their eyes when everyone falls in love with Luffy. Like absolutely deeply madly in love with him.

You're right and you should say it louder 💅

i know a lot of people didn’t really like opla zoro’s characterization but it honestly reminded me a lot of the filler episode where he met jonny and yosaku (im upset that didn’t make it into the live action 😭) as well as the filler where the seahorse stole their memories to become a millennial dragon (i know a lot of people skip filler tho 🖐🏽😞)

spoilers for pretime skip if you haven’t watched it yet !

but in a grander scheme of things i think it would honestly be so amazing and heartbreaking at the same time if we watched zoro learn to open up towards the crew over the course of logue town - sabaody only to see him come back more closed off after the events of thriller bark - marine ford (i kinda see chopper as being that character that really allows us to see a softer side of zoro i mean he’s the main character we genuinely get to see his big brother/care giver energy with)

it would also be similar to robin started off closed off when she first joined the crew post alabasta and we see her start to open up because of the events of enies lobby (OH i think it would also be a good contrast between robin and zoro as well because we’d see how easily he has become open with the crew members he’s already been with while still have this “i need to protect them from her” i think it may come off stronger in the live action im also referring to skypeia here, i also wonder if they’ll have nami be slower to trust robin as well) idk im just existed to see what changes they may or may not make to how the characters interact im personally not watching the live action or even the anime to be a perfect one for one adaptation of the manga i think that’d be a bit boring for me personally 🤸🏽‍♀️

i can definitely see them taking that kind of approach of the live action gets that far and i think it’d make a lot of since from a character perspective

Been reading Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and I decided to draw my take on the creature. Hope you like him! I’m a big fan of the book so far!

Beautiful! 😍 Look at the cuties! 🥰

Have another doodle dump 💁🏻